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April 06, 2009

Where to get the EMC Storage Viewer vCenter plugin

This is a freely available vCenter plugin that shows integrated views of storage use, configuration, and checks for some array best practice settings. It joins the two other EMC vCenter plugins (one for automated SRM failback, the other for creating rapid array-based copies of VMs which you can find here – and YES we are planning on merging them :-) It is supported on vCenter 2.5 update 2 and later

UPDATE (4/6/2009 – 7:31pm) – a bit shoddy on my part to not hit a couple “known issues” – Virtual Center update 4 isn’t supported (workaround noted in the readme), and if you have NFS datastores present, it’s known issue. Working on it. The vCenter plugin model is also getting updated a bit (new options) which is adding a bit of dev. fun.

One thing to note is that the current distro only supports U2 and U3 (see the README for other version details) and that's likely what's causing the error. Workaround is to install an older (U2 or U3) client on a workstation in an environment that's been upgraded, until a new kit comes out that supports U4 (~ June timeframe). To submit additional feedback, al;so please use the links at the plink download site.

Also, Celerra iSCSI is not currently supported but we are evaluating the feasibility of doing so.

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